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earthquake.usgs.govMagnitudeLocationTimeM54 hours agoM56 hours agoM5.313 hours agoM51 day agoM5.41 day agoM5.61 day agoM5.32 days agoM5.22 days ago170 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. 2024-07-12 22:26:42 (UTC-07:00) 67.3 km. 4.3.
Sep 19, 2022 · The Latest Earthquake web application displays information in real-time and near-real-time for magnitude 2.5+ earthquakes in the U.S. and magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes around the world. This interactive tool allows you to view a list and map of earthquakes and to fine-tune the display with various settings.
Click or tap on a circle to view more details about an earthquake, such as location, date/time, magnitude, and links to more information about the quake. Local time is the time of the earthquake in your computer's time zone.
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23 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska. 2024-07-09 21:16:00 (UTC-07:00) 10.9 km. 4.9.
An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on the edge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel through the earth's crust and cause the shaking that we feel.
An earthquake – also called a quake, tremor, or temblor – is the shaking of the Earth 's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
4 days ago · Earthquake, any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Earthquakes occur most often along geologic faults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another. Learn more about the causes and effects of earthquakes in this article.
Earthquake locations and epicenters today and in the last few days - the most recent earthquakes.
3 days ago · A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook southwestern Canada near Vancouver on Thursday. The epicenter of the quake was around 130 miles from Tofino, a small district on Vancouver Island in the Pacific ...